Realizing Colloidal Artificial Ice on Arrays of Optical Traps

Details Realizing Colloidal Artificial Ice on Arrays of Optical Traps Realizing Colloidal Artificial Ice on Arrays of Optical Traps

2006-03-09

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0603265v2

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 228302 (2006)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

4 pages, 3 postscript figures; version to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.228302

We demonstrate how a colloidal version of artificial ice can be realized on optical trap lattices. Using numerical simulations, we show that this system obeys the ice rules and that for strong colloid-colloid interactions, an ordered ground state appears. We show that the ice rule ordering can occur for systems with as few as twenty-four traps and that the ordering transition can be observed at constant temperature by varying the barrier strength of the traps.

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